Summary

Venezuelan migrants in Florida feel betrayed after the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 people.

Many Venezuelan-Americans, who backed Trump in 2024, now fear deportation despite their contributions to the U.S. economy.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem justified the decision by alleging Venezuela sent criminals to the U.S., a claim community leaders reject.

The policy shift coincides with Trump officials negotiating with Venezuela’s authoritarian regime, sparking criticism from Republican lawmakers and concerns among other TPS-protected immigrant groups.

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    2 months ago

    Something something Leopards and faces.

    I have no sympathy left for these kind of people. You are not “one of the good ones”, you were used and are now discarded like every usefull idiot eventually is who believes they are somehow special enough to be spared.

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      2 months ago

      This is exactly what he said he was going to do. This is what they voted for.

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    2 months ago

    Given how Trump openly spoke about them while campaigning and outright saying he would deport them, I really don’t know what they expected and I have little sympathy. They enabled the nazis, now they suffer the consequences along with the rest of us.

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      They thought he’d get rid of “the bad ones”, and forgot that, to the MAGA base, they are ALL “the bad ones”.

      Top that off with ICE quotas meaning they’ll go after low hanging fruit e.g. Folks who are law abiding tax payers, and you end out with brown people who wore red hats getting sent back to their home country.

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    2 months ago

    Bunch of twats forgot that Trump is just the orange version of the mortadela. Once a populist victim, always a populist victim. Just because they hate the same people you hate, doesn’t mean they love you.